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madman · Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 598

Has anyone seen this copier before? It looks like a hack of the Gamars Super Disk/Tools UI.

kyuusaku · Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 941 Location: .ma.us

AFAIK ALMA is Gamars.

This is a pretty common unit in Taiwan.

madman · Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 598

It's interesting to see a whole different line of copiers in Taiwan versus Hong Kong. Do you know the history of that SF7 Taiwan unit? I think it's called game partner or something, basically the same as SF7 but a different label and screens in the BIOS.

kyuusaku · Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 941 Location: .ma.us

Yeah, I have a Game Partner II; it's horrible! All it does is limit the functionality of a normal SF7. Because it's just a hacked BIOS, everything is really buggy because they never completely removed features. One thing it doesn't allow is you to have more than one game in DRAM... when you load something on a GPII, it will flush the old game :)

madman · Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 598

Is it the same hardware as an SF7, or is it just a ripoff? It looks like they used the same mold and everything for the case so I assumed Bung was involved somehow and it wasn't just a poorly made repro of an SF7. I'd think most people in Taiwan would've went with an FFE product rather than these other off brands.

Trenton_net · Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 233

It's all about price. Off-brands sell because they are cheap and plentiful. Most people don’t know the difference between copiers, so when they see a Gamars or a WildCard, they shrug and go for the cheap one. The only thing that might make a diffrence is the language, but Gamars and WildCard both display Chinese just fine.

kyuusaku · Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 941 Location: .ma.us

The Game Partner series is by a company called Top Game, perhaps with Bung's blessings (nobody knows.) I don't have the original Game Partner (SFIII) or the SFVI one but I think they all have cloned cases which are of less quality than the originals of course. The ASICs in the units are official Bung ones but the PCBs aren't necessarily, mine has a cloned PCB, some have original or upgraded PCBs (like a SF7 with SFVI PCB) like Bung's official upgrade units.